On September 13th, Hannah Graham, apparently with a lot of other students, wandered around the area surrounding the campus, visiting bars, drinking, having fun; she was last caught on street and other cameras after midnight, walking with a man. At some point she texted some friends, said she was lost, asked somebody to pick her up. (She had moved recently, and was headed in the wrong direction.) Charlottesville police think they have identified the man she was last seen with. He even went and talked to them, but they didn't have grounds at the time to retain him. Police now say they found evidence in his car that justifies arresting and charging him, but he's disappeared. He's not a student - he worked as a hospital patient aide.
The above has been all over the news here in Northern Virginia. Suspect it's going to be a messy one because the "suspect" is 32 and black, the missing girl, who is from this area, is 18 and white. The following is from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, which was easier to access and copy/post than the WP:
Suspect charged in case of missing UVa student - Bluefield Daily Telegraph: News
Missing UVa Student
In this image provided by the Charlottesville Police Department via WRIC-TV Tuesday Sept. 23, 2014 shows the wanted poster issued for Leroy Matthew Jr. Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said at a news conference Tuesday night that officers are looking for Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., 32, after obtaining a felony arrest warrant from a magistrate on a charge of abduction with intent to defile.
They also continue to search for 18-year-old Hannah Graham, who went missing early the morning of Sept. 13. (AP Photo/Charlottesville, VA. Police Department via WRIC-TV)
Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:04 am
Associated Press |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Even with a suspect charged in the disappearance of a missing University of Virginia student, police are stressing the search for the 18-year-old sophomore from northern Virginia remains in full force.
Authorities late Tuesday obtained a felony arrest warrant from a magistrate on a charge of abduction with intent to defile against 32-year-old Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., who police believe was the last person seen with Hannah Graham. Graham was last seen early the morning of Sept. 13.
Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said at a news conference that officers were looking for Matthew, a campus employee and longtime Charlottesville resident, who was last seen Saturday when he stopped by the police station with his mother and uncle to ask for a lawyer. Police say he sped away afterward, losing officers who had him under surveillance and prompting authorities to issue two arrest warrants for reckless driving.
Longo said police, who have searched Matthew's car once and his apartment twice, decided they had probable cause to charge him in Graham's disappearance. He declined to say what new information police had, and he did not take questions. However, he walked back to the podium when a reporter asked whether police were still looking for Graham, an alpine skier and alto saxophone player, according to family members and police.
"We absolutely are continuing our search for Hannah, even as we speak, and we will continue our search for Hannah," he said.
According to police, Graham met friends at a restaurant for dinner on Sept. 12 before stopping by two parties at off-campus housing units. The sophomore from northern Virginia left the second party alone, police have said, and sent a text message to a friend saying she was lost.
Surveillance videos showed her walking, and at some points running, past a pub and a service station and then onto the Downtown Mall, a seven-block pedestrian strip lined with shops and restaurants where police believe she entered a bar with Matthew.
Matthew has been employed at the University of Virginia Medical Center since Aug. 12, 2012, as a patient technician in the operating room, university spokesman McGregor McCance said.
Online court records show Matthew was convicted of trespassing in 2010 but provide no details about the incident. Details also were unavailable for two other charges of assault and attempted grand larceny relating to a 2009 incident that were not prosecuted. Matthew also has several traffic infractions, records show.
It has been on the news here too. Didn't they arrest him someplace in Texas today?
Yes, the suspect was arrested on a beach in Galveston Texas. He's apparently waived extradition.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/us/virginia-hannah-graham/
Glad he was arrested. It is just scary and one thing that we warned our niece about that don't go off with anyone that she did not know.
The latest news says that the bartender where she was last seen said she was so drunk that she was incapacitated.
Quote from: Bo D on September 26, 2014, 09:09:39 AM
The latest news says that the bartender where she was last seen said she was so drunk that she was incapacitated.
I haven't seen that Bo D. I wonder if someone slipped something in her drink to make her incapacitated. I am not saying that anyone did but wonder if they did.
Quote from: Purplelady1040 on September 26, 2014, 09:26:17 AM
I haven't seen that Bo D. I wonder if someone slipped something in her drink to make her incapacitated. I am not saying that anyone did but wonder if they did.
Could be but I doubt it. UVA was once voted the best "party school" in the country and I sense that there are large vestiges of that image hanging on there. I go through Charlottesville at least once a year. The last time I was there we had dinner near the University and I was amazed at the number of drunken students on the street.
Quote from: Purplelady1040 on September 26, 2014, 09:26:17 AM
I haven't seen that Bo D. .....
Here ya go...
http://www.wtop.com/120/3709349/Bar-owner-Graham-could-barely-walk (http://www.wtop.com/120/3709349/Bar-owner-Graham-could-barely-walk)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The owner of a bar where a missing University of Virginia student was last seen with a man charged in her abduction says she could barely walk that night without the man's support.
Tempo Restaurant owner Brice Cunningham told The Associated Press on Thursday that Hannah Graham appeared to be incapacitated as she walked away with Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. nearly two weeks ago.
Matthew, a 32-year-old operating room technician at the university's hospital, had been drinking at the bar earlier that night before he encountered the 18-year-old sophomore outside on Charlottesville's pedestrian Downtown Mall, Cunningham said.
Matthew then briefly re-entered the bar, ordered what credit card records suggest were two beers, and rejoined the teenager outside. The bar's door monitor told police they walked off with Matthew's arm around her for support, he said.
Quote from: Bo D on September 26, 2014, 09:45:17 AM
Here ya go...
http://www.wtop.com/120/3709349/Bar-owner-Graham-could-barely-walk (http://www.wtop.com/120/3709349/Bar-owner-Graham-could-barely-walk)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The owner of a bar where a missing University of Virginia student was last seen with a man charged in her abduction says she could barely walk that night without the man's support.
Tempo Restaurant owner Brice Cunningham told The Associated Press on Thursday that Hannah Graham appeared to be incapacitated as she walked away with Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. nearly two weeks ago.
Matthew, a 32-year-old operating room technician at the university's hospital, had been drinking at the bar earlier that night before he encountered the 18-year-old sophomore outside on Charlottesville's pedestrian Downtown Mall, Cunningham said.
Matthew then briefly re-entered the bar, ordered what credit card records suggest were two beers, and rejoined the teenager outside. The bar's door monitor told police they walked off with Matthew's arm around her for support, he said.
Thanks, for posting that Bo D. It is amazing how trusting these college kids are.
Matthew appears to be culpable in something that happened, otherwise he wouldn't have hauled ass to Galveston, TX.
Quote from: Purplelady1040 on September 26, 2014, 11:48:06 AM
Thanks, for posting that Bo D. It is amazing how trusting these college kids are.
I don't know if I would call it trusting ... maybe stupid? And it isn't just college kids that get stupid when they're rip-roaring drunk.
Quote from: Locutus on September 26, 2014, 11:51:03 AM
Matthew appears to be culpable in something that happened, otherwise he wouldn't have hauled ass to Galveston, TX.
Count on it! And he camped out on the beach there.
Quote from: Bo D on September 26, 2014, 11:53:15 AM
I don't know if I would call it trusting ... maybe stupid? And it isn't just college kids that get stupid when they're rip-roaring drunk.
So very true on that. It never ceases to amaze me how naïve and trusting people are.
Quote from: Bo D on September 26, 2014, 11:53:15 AM
I don't know if I would call it trusting ... maybe stupid? And it isn't just college kids that get stupid when they're rip-roaring drunk.
This is kind of off topic, but what you said reminds me of the "famous last words of a redneck" line.
"Hold my beer and watch this!";D
Human remains have been found and her parents have been notified. The remains haven't been identified yet, but I think we all know what the eventual outcome will be.
Sad.
Very tragic
Quote from: Purplelady1040 on October 19, 2014, 11:09:07 AM
Very tragic
They always kill the pretty ones. What was she thinking, getting so drunk and being with someone so ugly. :'(
Losing a child is awful beyond description, but if that is their daughter's remains, it is beyond horror to imagine what her parents are going through. It's too much to hope that news talkers and others could show some sensitivity. :rant: : Example: One news program today interviewed a man and woman on whose property the remains were found, and one of them said they were alerted to the site because of "the smell and buzzards flying around."
Quote from: The Troll on October 19, 2014, 03:55:15 PM
They always kill the pretty ones. What was she thinking, getting so drunk and being with someone so ugly. :'(
Troll, I have to agree with you but did I read where maybe her dink was spiked and she was so drunk that she didn't know what she was doing? It doesn't matter whether she was ugly or pretty, it is a tragedy!
Quote from: libby on October 19, 2014, 03:56:31 PM
Losing a child is awful beyond description, but if that is their daughter's remains, it is beyond horror to imagine what her parents are going through. It's too much to hope that news talkers and others could show some sensitivity. :rant: : Example: One news program today interviewed a man and woman on whose property the remains were found, and one of them said they were alerted to the site because of "the smell and buzzards flying around."
It was told that it was her!
BREAKING NEWS:
Human remains found last week are those of UVA student Hannah Graham, the office of Virginia's medical examiner confirms.
Quote from: Locutus on October 24, 2014, 05:02:59 PM
BREAKING NEWS:
Human remains found last week are those of UVA student Hannah Graham, the office of Virginia's medical examiner confirms.
Damn. . . But I think we already knew she was dead anyway, and who likely did it. . . :mad:
Yeah, that's unfortunately true. They'll fry that guy in Virginia, though, especially if they can tie him in with both of those murders.
Quote from: Locutus on October 24, 2014, 10:54:21 PM
Yeah, that's unfortunately true. They'll fry that guy in Virginia, though, especially if they can tie him in with both of those murders.
The he will get part of what he deserves! :yes:
Quote from: Palehorse on October 24, 2014, 11:01:33 PM
The he will get part of what he deserves! :yes:
I hope he can be tied to those murders and he gets what he deserves! I am not sure why a person feels the need to ever kill someone!
Has anyone heard any updates on this case? I was wondering if Jesse Matthew had been charged with her death, but I haven't found anything on a Google search.
That's because the police are handling him very carefully until they figure out just what they have. The last I heard the police in Charlottesville and Texas had agreed to let the police here in Fairfax County have him first -- because there's "forensic evidence" that links him to a similar unsolved case here. I'll see what I can find and post more tomorrow.
Thanks Libby!
Locutus, here's what I was referring to: I had to type it from my copy of the Washington Post page because the article and comments totalled 60 pages at last look and no easy way to separate the article from the comments, etc.
Jesse L. Matthew linked to earlier assault via DNA from victim's fingernail
Justin Jouvenal and T. Rees Shapiro
Nov 7, 2014
The man accused of abducting University of Virginia student Hannah Graham has been linked to a 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax City via DNA evidence collected from one of the victim's fingernails, according to court records.
The Virginia Department of Forensic Science's comparison of DNA taken from Jesse L. Matthew Jr. and the sample taken from the woman at the time of the attack concluded that there is a "1 in greater than 7.2 billion" chance the DNA might belong to another person, according to the court records. Such a scientific finding, which eliminates almost the entire world population, probably will be central to the criminal case against Matthew.
The analysis was performed late last month after Matthew's indictment on several charges related to the Sept. 24 2005 attack on a 26-year-old woman in Fairfax City, court records show.
continued from the same Washington Post article:
"....The victim in the Fairfax City case lives overseas, and attempts to reach her have been unsuccessful. The Post generally does not identify victims of sex crimes....
Matthew, 32, of Charlottesville has been charged with attempted capital murder, abduction with intent to defile and object sexual penetration in the case."
(but wait: there's more from the same article by Jouvenal :eek:)
"Authorities had said that forensic evidence also linked the Fairfax assault to the disappearance of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. She vanished after leaving a Metallica concert on the UVa campus in 2009. Her body was discovered months later on a farm outside Charlottesville. People with knowledge of the investigation have told The Post that the cases were tied by DNA evidence.
Matthew is scheduled to appear in the Fairfax case Nov 14."
Thanks for posting the article, Libby!! I hope they fry his ass!
Quote from: Purplelady1040 on November 11, 2014, 12:43:37 PM
Thanks for posting the article, Libby!! I hope they fry his ass!
Yes!
Here's the latest, from today's Washington Post:
March trial date set for Jesse Matthew in Fairfax City sexual assault case
By Justin Jouvenal November 14 at 9:22 AM
A trial date was set for the man accused of abducting University of Virginia student Hannah Graham in an unrelated sexual assault case in Fairfax County.
Jesse Matthew pleaded not guilty to all charges in a sexual assault case in Fairfax City. A trial date is set for March 9.
Friday's court hearing marked Matthew's first in-court appearance in the Fairfax case.
Matthew has been charged with attempted capital murder, abduction with intent to defile and sexual penetration with an object in an attack on a 26-year-old woman in Fairfax City on the night of Sept. 24, 2005.
Authorities allege that Matthew grabbed the woman from behind as she was walking home from a supermarket, carried her to a nearby park and then violently attacked her. They said he fled after being startled by someone passing by.
He is also believed to have been involved in the disappearance of Graham from Charlottesville in September. In that case, Matthew has been charged with abduction with intent to defile. Nearly six weeks after Graham went missing, authorities found her remains on an abandoned property outside Charlottesville.
Matthew has his first appearance in the Graham case Dec. 4.
In the Fairfax County case, Matthew's defense team did not seek a psychiatric evaluation of Matthew — a move that was seen as a shift in tactics from earlier strategies of his defense.
The move signals that Matthew's mental state would play a prominent role in his trial and possibly that his attorneys could pursue a defense that he was insane at the time of the crime or is incompetent to be tried.
Fairfax County assistant public defender Robert Franks did not explain the change, but he said the request for an evaluation would not be submitted. James Camblos, the attorney that signaled his desire for the evaluation, did not return a call for comment.
www.washingtonpost.com
Jesse L. Matthew has been charged with first degree murder in the death of Hannah Graham. They just wrapped up a news conference minutes ago.